NYC Banning ALL Hot Dogs & Processed Meats

nivek

As Above So Below
NYC To Ban Hot Dogs and Processed Meats To Improve Climate

New York City is the first city in the United States to eliminate processed meats.

Mayor Bill de Blasio approved an ambitious $14 billion Green New Deal on Monday, April 22, to combat climate change. The plan will cut purchases of red meat by 50 percent in its city-controlled facilities such as hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. The new commitment builds off of the Meatless Mondays campaign that was adopted by all NYC schools in 2017.

“It is a difficult plan. It is a necessary plan.... Estimates that tell us that we have only 12 years to get it right. Let’s be clear, we have until 2030 to change things fundamentally, or our lives won’t be the same,” de Blasio said at an Earth Day event yesterday.

By 2030, New York City's Green New Deal will reduce greenhouse emissions by 30% while also creating new jobs. Additionally, all buildings that are 25,000 square feet or more, of which there are 50,000 citywide, will be required to make efficiency upgrades that lower their energy usage and emissions or they will face steep penalties.

 

Standingstones

Celestial
In high school a group of us ran the concession stand at the football games. We had this large vat that we boiled the hot dogs in. There was this filmy yellow/green substance that rose to the top of the boiling water. It made me sick just looking at it. I never ate a hot dog after that.
 

AD1184

Celestial
Are they banning them from sale, or are they just banning the city from buying them? I think anything the city of New York does as a supposed measure against global warming is going to be undone by what China does.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
They thought it was cow farts but all this time it was the f*&#ng Hot Dogs...

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kellyb

Adept
Deceptive title:
https://thetakeout.com/nyc-new-york-hot-dog-ban-green-new-deal-false-1834331084
"Is reading comprehension taught in schools any more? Is the internet sometimes a giant game of telephone, in which news starts out as one thing and morphs into a story that only sort-of rhymes with the truth? Maybe not, and yes. Case in point: I read headlines earlier this week announcing that New York City had “banned” hot dogs. Any city, let alone New York, outright banning a popular food had to be bologna. And of course, it was.

What those hot-dog ban headlines got wrong was that NYC hadn’t declared hot dogs illegal; it’s just moving to exclude them from the menus at city-run institutions like hospitals, schools, and prisons.
Thank you, fine people of Snopes, for setting the record straight. Here’s the truth: New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced earlier this week that as part of its Green New Deal plan, the city would take several steps to curb greenhouse emissions, including cutting processed meat from food services in government institutions. "

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"Grocery stores, street-cart vendors, stadiums, and restaurants will all still be allowed to sell tube steaks to the hungry masses. Rest assured, New Yorkers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will not personally slap the hot dog right out of your hands."
 
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